December 29th, 2009

Free Online Halloween Games

Every person, from almost any country has heard of the Halloween. It is an annual holiday and it is celebrated on October 31. The holiday is quite old and it has roots in Christian and Celtic traditions from many years ago. (16-th century). The most famous symbol of Halloween are the carved pumpkin candles.

The Celtics were using carved turnips, but the custom of carved pumpkins appeared in the North America, because they are much larger than turnips so easier to be carved. People were making candles out of pumpkins, and giving them all sort of funny or scary faces, and placed them in front of their homes, or in the window, to scare away the bad spirits. The Halloween is a holiday associated with bad spirits, witches, skeletons etc…practically with all of the horror domain. Beside the custom of making candles out of pumpkins, another famous activity for the Halloween is to dress as a scary character (a ghost, a monster, witch etc). Children dressed this way are moving from house to house, saying the famous “Trick or treat”. If the person that opens the door likes their costumes, they will give candies to the kids. They will go from one house to another to gain as many candies as possible. But Halloween is not a holiday just for the kids, and it has become an important business. It has become famous all over the world, and people are trying to profit as much as they can from this holiday. Even if their kids are not going for “trick or treat”, the adults can have a lot of fun in this night. There are special parties organized in bars, clubs or at people’s home, where they dress as monsters and have fun together. Another fun activity to do on Halloween’s night is to watch a horror movie. You can choose a regular horror movie, but there are also movies made especially for the Halloween night. There are also many haunted attractions that are making a lot of money on this holiday. But there is also another activity, that you can do both for Halloween or in any other day of the year, and this is to play a free online Halloween game.

You will find so many of them on the internet, and they are absolutely free. They are using the flash technology so it means they are easy to play, with a simple graphic and simple controls. It is not necessary for a game to contain the “Halloween” word, any game involving ghosts, skeletons or other monsters can be a Halloween word.

Now let’s take some random games, play them and discuss more about them. Let’s take for example the one called “Monster invasion”. In this one some wild Viking monsters are attacking London and you will have to stop them. Don’t let any monster get past you, because you will fail the game. It begins with an interesting introduction movie, but you can skip it if you want. The action of the game takes place at night, and you will have a few houses and blocks of London in front of you. The monsters will attack from the right side of the screen, and you will have to click on different items on the screen, to trigger actions to kill the monsters. Move fast, and don’t let any monster get to the left side of the screen. Good luck!

Now let’s play the scary game called Graveyard shift. Here you are working in the graveyard and you will have to shoot all the monsters that will appear. You will be moving from the left to the right, very slowly, and there will be all kinds of green and scary monsters appearing in front of you. You will have to shoot them before they get out of your sight. On each shoot there will be green blood coming out of the creatures, and some of them require two or more shots to die. There will be some creatures shooting back at you, and you will have to use the space bar to activate your shield. Just move the mouse button to target the monsters, click the left button to shoot, and move the mouse on the upcoming fire to defend yourself (while pressing the space bar). You will also find items that can give you health, so shoot them to restore your life. Have fun, and shoot all the ugly monsters! :)

Now let’s play a game that is specially made for the Halloween, for example the “Whack O Wheen”. In this game you must help Wendel, the wicked witch, to protect her prized pumpkins from those pesky ghosts. Also collect candies for extra points and potions for like or points. Move Wendel using the arrow keys, and be careful at how many pumpkins (lives) you have left. Just move the witch around the screen, and when she gets close to a ghost, she will automatically hit her in the head with a broomstick. Be careful that when you get to one side of the screen, Wendel will go throw it and will appear on the other side of the screen, and this can be pretty annoying until you get used to it. But after that the game can be really fun.

If you are a fan of skeleton games, one of them is the “Numbskull”. It is a puzzle game and you will have to solve the puzzles and get the skull safely back to his body. Just click and drag on the screen to make a box across the level. When you let go of the mouse button, everything inside will turn, and the skeleton head will fall. You will have to get the head on the rest of the body, to make the skeleton complete, and also happy. You can turn just a few blocks at a time, or more, depending on how you want to move them. The first levels are simpler, but they will become more and more difficult as you advance in the game. The music is pretty nice, and the sound made by the skeleton when you complete a level is really funny, so this is a nice game that you can always play when you are bored and you are looking for some mental stimulation.

There are so many more Halloween games on the internet, but we just don’t have enough time to present them all. So we’ll play just one more , and we are leaving you the task to play as many as you can, and share your opinions with us. Now let’s play the one called “The creepy pong”. It is a classic ping pong game, the difference is that you will play it against creepy monsters, in a graveyard. First you get to choose your bat. You can choose a classical one with the Miniclip logo, a bat with angel wings on it (representing heaven) and another one with flames on it (representing hell). After choosing the paddle you can play your first game. It seems like the first opponent is a random one, sometimes it can happen to play against a skeleton, other time against a zombie and so on. In rest the rules and game play are exactly like a classic ping pong game. You only have to move in all the directions to control the paddle, and hit the ball making it go on the opponent’s field. The game lasts until someone reaches 11, and then you can move on the next opponent. As you advance in the game, the opponents will play better and better, making it hard for you to win the game. It is a really fun game, even more fun than a regular ping pong game. In most of the classic table tennis game you will play against a simple paddle, but here you play against all sort of monsters, in a cool environment. Have fun!